Prom 54 (30.08.20) Sir Simon Rattle - live

[Bryn]

Thanks both .... a bit sad ...... I wonder why .... ????

I failed to work out a rationale. It's not BBC ensembles versus others. The Salford (BBCPO) Prom is there for 1 month, while the London SInfonietta Prom is there for another 11 months.

[antongould]

Just the RVW 5 for me on I player just now.
Absolutely wonderful performance,so many great moments,how exquisite were those closing bars for example ?
The fact that there was no audience seemed to give the music unbearable poignancy for me,strange.
Ralph Vaughan Williams is most definitely THE composer for troubled times

Couldn’t agree more edge .......

[silvestrione]

I had another listen to the Ades, but I'm afraid it didn't improve. But the Kurtag! That seemed magnificent.

I note it's not the first time Uchida and Rattle have performed it together with the Beethoven 'Moonlight' 1st movement before it: it's also available on the BPO Digital Concert Hall archive. Gala concert 2013, which also included Gabrieli and RVW, the Tallis Fantasia.

[bluestateprommer]

An outstanding concert especially the VW5 and Elgar Introduction and Allegro . I rather enjoyed the Ades and the Gabrieli too.

Agree that this was a very well conceived and performed program, especially under the circumstances.

Regarding the Ades, my opinion of it on just the one hearing of it is perhaps rather backhanded. Obviously I couldn't watch the video from this side of the pond, so I was spared the "instant classic" evaluation by Suzy Klein. Ian Skelly was far more sensible, of course, by not rendering any judgment and allowing us to decide for ourselves. While I would not call Dawn an "instant classic", I will say that Ades accomplished a lot more with a lot less compared to Hannah Kendall's new work 2 days earlier. HK's work, her attempt at a "picture at an exhibition", used a lot more notes to make very little impression that fit her title, at least on me. TA, at the least, made an impression with his work that fit his title.